Quotes About Principle

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

Governments never do any great good things from mere principle, from mere love of justice ... You expect too much of human nature when you expect that.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

Thr principle of organization is built into nature. Chaos itself is self-organizing. Out of primordial disorder, stars find their orbit; rivers make their way to the sea.

Nature hath no goal, though she hath law.

If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under.

True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels them the desire to do right is precisely the same.

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

I hope to find my country in the right: however I will stand by her, right or wrong.

I have heard something said about allegiance to the South. I know no South, no North, no East, no West, to which I owe any allegiance.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

The commercial spirit is the spirit of profit, not patriotism; of credit, not honor; of individual gain, not national prosperity; of trade and dickering, not principle.

My patriotism and my conscience required me to support it and to engage in the debate over whether and how to fight it.

A man who would sacrifice freedom for security deserves neither.

A land is precious, but ours is to be revered.

Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right but our country right or wrong.

I would not mind being a bit evil, for the larger good.

Millions for defense but not one cent for tribute.